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Figure 1 Life-table curves for recurrence of ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation in the three study groups. Recurrences were significantly more frequent in patients of the ICD-only group in comparison to the Sotalol group (p = 0.0008) and the ICD/sotalol group (p = 0.023). There was no significant difference between the sotalol group and the ICD/sotalol group (p = 0.288). Two patients in the sotalol group and one patient in the ICD group died suddenly and in all three patients this was the first recurrence of ventricular tachyarrhythmias (see methods for the definition of a recurrence of ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation).
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